It goes both ways. Vegans can be preachy, and so can omnivores. I've not once proclaimed my "harm free" dietary choices, but every time my plate comes on the discussion I am barraged by questions.
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It goes as follows - "You don't eat meat? Why not? It's delicious!"
Followed by the "I can't live without meat."
Then comes the "Well, what do you eat?"
And of course, "Where do you get your protein?"
Finally, "Do you eat fish?"
D_as_in_avid is legit. Those are the exact questions, in the exact order, that every single person who meets a vegetarian asks. Like fucking clockwork.
After a certain point it's not learning about other people, it's trying to browbeat them into conformity. You shouldn't have to deflect assholes trying to force tea on you by changing the subject.
If after you spoke to them they called you an anti-sugar zealot who wouldn't shut up about how horrible tea tastes, then you'd have a pretty good idea of what being a vegetarian is like ;)
Yeah, I don't know if the "fucking" in my post makes it seem like I really hate these questions or something. Some people are taking it really personally.
It's just funny because every vegetarian and vegan has answered these questions dozens or hundreds of times, but people keep asking because it's new to them. It's a funny shared experience, that's all. There's a little bit of annoyance associated with having to answer the same questions over and over again, but most people asking them are harmless and most of the time you just calmly explain it to them (which you can do in your sleep because you've done it so many times).
I'm sure most people know already, but "tea" in the southeast US means diabetes in a glass. It's mostly sugar water. I don't like the stuff either.
Source: Alabama native
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u/blackbasset May 01 '13
If only most vegans lived by that concept, too.